Speak up before it is too late
2015-03-18
There is no room for neutrality, our silence can only indicate acquiescence.
Varsities in Hyderabad on course to end bias against NE students
2015-03-17
Hyderabad – With discrimination and attacks on students from the northeastern states a cause for major concern, universities in the city are all set to act on a central directive to begin courses on the heritage and culture of the seven sister states. Following a directive from the ministry ofContinue Reading
Pakistan Christians hold funerals for church blast victims
2015-03-17
Lahore – Hundreds of Pakistani Christians have attended funerals for the victims of two Taliban suicide bomb attacks in the city of Lahore. Security was tight, with police sealing off Lahore’s biggest Christian neighbourhood and submitting those attending to security checks. Sunday’s bombings of two churches in the Youhanabad areaContinue Reading
Rape of Catholic nun, church attacks unnerve Indian Christians
2015-03-17
New Delhi – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that he was “deeply concerned” about the recent rape of a nun and the destruction of a church, but Christian groups said his words did little to dispel the fear gripping the tiny community since his rightwing Hindu government cameContinue Reading
Police arrest main accused in Haryana church vandalisation case
2015-03-17
Chandigarh – Haryana Police on Tuesday arrested the main accused in the vandalisation of an under-construction church in a village in Hisar district. “The main accused Anil Godara has been arrested from Hisar today,” Hisar SP Saurabh Singh told PTI over phone. He said that the accused will be producedContinue Reading
Suddenly I am a stranger in my own country: Ribeiro
2015-03-16
Ordinary Hindu men and women will not be swayed by an ideology that seeks to spread distrust and hateContinue Reading
Terror in name of religion should be defeated: Cleemis
2015-03-16
Pathanamthitta – The Kerala Catholic Bishops Council (KCBC) has condemned ‘terrorism in the name of religion’ in various parts of the world. A pastoral letter issued by KCBC president Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Catholicos recently and read in churches on Sunday expressed concern over the cruelty meted out to human beingsContinue Reading
Bengal CM faces angry protests over nun gang rape
2015-03-16
Ranaghat – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday evening travelled to Ranaghat and met an elderly nun who was gang-raped at her convent school over the weekend. However, the chief minister’s convoy was blocked for almost an hour by angry crowds, demanding justice for the nun. Ms BanerjeeContinue Reading
14 booked for vandalising Church in Haryana
2015-03-16
Hisar – The Haryana police said on Monday that 14 miscreants have been booked on charges of vandalising an under-construction church in Kaimri village in the state’s Hisar district on Sunday. The Cross in the Williwarsh Church was replaced with an idol of Hanuman. The police booked the accused underContinue Reading